Colindale tube station set for dramatic rebuild

London Underground’s unremarkable shed of a tube station at Colindale is set to be demolished and rebuilt with a dramatic curving wooden landmark for the area.

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The funding for the new station is being met from the addition of 350 homes on the site, which has already in recent years seen clusters of new residential towers appearing on the landscape.

A total of £5 million in funding from TfL’s Growth Fund has been allocated for the new station building with step-free access and new pedestrian and cycle links. The project will cost in total some £22 million, so the remainder of the cost comes from the housing development.

TfL is proposing to build a tower for the homes, and a new station building with an enlarged ticket hall, ground floor commercial space and improvements to the surrounding area.

(c) TfL

The intention is to expand Colindale station’s capacity to meet the expected addition of even more homes in the next few years as the former Met Police training grounds are filled up with residential blocks.

A consultation has opened into the plans, and planning is expected to be applied for by the end of this next month.

If approved, work could start in 2021, with completion of the station rebuild in 2022.

A public exhibition for the proposals will be held at the nearby RAF Museum on:

I lived in Colindale from 1951 to 1973 and remember seeing the bombed remains of the original, rather elegant, station and, as a kid, getting quite excited about the construction of the present block in the early ‘60’s. I don’t suppose it has worn well.

Simon, how do you know that? I know the area well but emailed Tfl as they are not including any plans or maps on their ‘consultation’, and so it’s impossible to see where the station is – certainly the CGI shown is not linkable to the current station. If you;re right then the two towers will be either side of the track which is tricky as there is only the current car park to the east and that is too small.